How much is a skip permit in my council in 2026?

How to read these tables

• The council's fee is what the council publishes for a standard skip licence, as the council states it. It carries no VAT. "One of several rates" means the council publishes more than one, by road type, skip size, location, who is applying or the like; the figure shown is the one our booking uses. "Priced here as" a number of days means we hold no statement from the council of how long its licence lasts, and that is the length our booking uses. "To renew" is the council's fee for extending the licence; how long each renewal lasts is on the council's own page.
• Notice is shown only where we hold it in the council's own words, in working days. A dash means we hold none — not that the council asks for none.
• With us, 14 days is what the permit adds to your booking's total for 14 days on the road, booked with enough notice, including VAT. 14 days on a weekly licence takes 2 licences, and the table says so. While you book, the permit line is shown before VAT, so it reads lower than the figure here.
• Read from links to where the fee can be seen, with the date of what was read. Usually that is the council's own page. "Archived copy" is that page as the Internet Archive held it on the date shown, used where the council's site could not be read; "official source" is the highways service that issues permits for the council, or a council document. "Unconfirmed" marks a reading we could not check against the council's current page.

Two things are not in these figures and are priced when you book: a charge for booking at short notice, and a parking bay suspension where the skip takes a marked bay. In some councils with controlled parking zones, the on-road price you see first assumes a bay is needed until you say it is not.

County councils

Where there is a county council it issues the permit for every district in the county. The second table shows which districts each one covers.

The districts each county issues permits for

London boroughs

Each borough sets its own fee for its own roads. Red routes are controlled by Transport for London and are not in this table.

Metropolitan districts

The councils of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South and West Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and the West Midlands.

Unitary authorities in England

Single-tier councils that are their own highway authority.

Wales

Every Welsh council is its own highway authority.

Scotland

Scottish councils license skips under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.

Councils with no fee in these tables

For 35 councils that issue skip permits we hold no published fee. Most publish none on their website; a few publish it only where we could not read it. There we charge our own permit price: £102 for 14 days on the road, including VAT.

Aberdeen City, Barnet, Bath and North East Somerset, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumberland, East Renfrewshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Halton, Isle of Anglesey, Isles of Scilly, Leeds, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Na h-Eileanan Siar, North Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, North Somerset, Northumberland, Perth and Kinross, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Powys, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Rotherham, Shetland Islands, Slough, South Gloucestershire, South Tyneside, Telford and Wrekin, West Berkshire, West Northamptonshire, Westmorland and Furness, Wiltshire.

In Northern Ireland skip permits come from a government department, not a council, and we hold no published fee for it.

Where a skip cannot stand on the road

City of London does not allow a skip to stand on the public road at all. A wait-and-load visit, where the lorry stays while it is loaded, is the alternative there: ask us.

Where these figures come from

Each fee on this page was read from the council's own website, or from the official source linked beside it, on the date shown. Councils change their charges, often in April, so a fee read some months ago may have moved; follow the link to see what the council says now. The price with us comes from our own pricing and is updated about hourly.

Using these figures

This table is the Waste Central Skip Permit Index 2026: the published skip permit fee of 171 councils, each read from the source linked beside it, the most recent on 4 Oct 2026. You are welcome to quote any figure from it, with a link to this page as the source. Download the whole table as a spreadsheet file (CSV). The file holds the councils' own figures only: what a permit adds to a booking with us changes with our pricing, so it is on this page and not in the file.

How skip permits work, and when you need one.